Halley
Halley was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,536 among girls’ names; 4,238 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,050 Americans named Halley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Halley?
#3,536 among girls’ names, 2025
Halley rose from #3,620 in 2015 to #3,536 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 26.8 per million.
355 babies in 1986, the peak
Halley peaked in 1986, when 355 babies were given it (333 girls, #580 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,536 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,731 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,292 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,381 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,958 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,043 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,573 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,654 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,460 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,620 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,739 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,374 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,185 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,238 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,917 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,863 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,362 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,425 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,086 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,034 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,719 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,398 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,549 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 180 | #1,133 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,144 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 128 | #1,357 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,288 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 162 | #1,094 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 152 | #1,164 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,441 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,082 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,173 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,770 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,737 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 333 | #580 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 146 | #1,033 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,339 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,318 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,674 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,807 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,481 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,711 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,669 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,919 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,156 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,542 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,677 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,189 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,560 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Halley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,238 Americans recorded as Halley, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Halley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halley, and how old are they?
4,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,238 Americans ever recorded as Halley. The median Halley alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,864 people named Halley (3,697 women and girls, 167 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 559 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Halley born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,059 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,268 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Halley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Halley?
Halley is a less common spelling of Haley: SSA has recorded 4,238 Halley and 160,347 Haley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 502,835 babies since 1880, Halley is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 6,164 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Halley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Halley and names like it
- Compare Halley and HaleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHalley peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halley since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Halley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Halley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.